Radiant Motherhood: A Book for Those Who are Creating the FutureStopes, Marie Carmichael
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Radiant Motherhood: A Book for Those Who are Creating the Future
Stopes, Marie Carmichael
Mothers
Now this is a very nauseating and wretched experience to the majority
of women, and it is one which, I maintain, is entirely imposed by
ignorance, wrong living and the general hypnotic effect of others’
perverted views on the woman’s system. In those women whose internal
organs are improperly placed or somewhat malformed, it occurs as a
physiological result of pressure or other disturbance. _In true health
there is no physiological reason whatever for the morning sickness_,
and a woman who lives as she should live during the time of her coming
motherhood need not experience it. This should, in the next generation,
be entirely conquered, because it is to a very large extent caused
by allowing, even forcing to wear corsets, girls when they are still
unformed and developing. Those women who have never worn corsets in
the whole of their lives, and who dress as they should dress, and do
as they should do during the months when they are becoming mothers,
seldom experience morning sickness. Though there are some who, when
they know the child is coming, discard their corsets too late, and
these may still experience this unpleasant feature. The extraordinary
adaptability and vitality in a woman’s system, however, is a remarkable
thing, and even those who begin later in life than they should to train
for motherhood may yet accomplish much.
Granted a healthy, well-formed body, a previous life of normal
activity, sensible attention to the following points will insure
complete freedom from morning sickness in all but the exceptional and
pre-disposed:--
(_a_) Discard every scrap of heavy or constricting clothing,
wearing only the lightest garments hung from the shoulders entirely.
As I said in _Married Love_ the standard of dressing for the
prospective mother, whose garments should be of the lightest wool and
silk if possible, and should be so lightly hung that a butterfly can
walk the length of her body without tearing its wings.
(_b_) Discard all rich, heavy and over-cooked foods, such as
pastries and hot cakes, dried peas and beans, rich game or highly
seasoned dishes, and live as much as possible on uncooked foods and
simple milk puddings, stewed fruit, lightly cooked meat and fish,
with the largest obtainable quantity of very fresh ripe fruit.
(_c_) Start the day not with tea, but with the juice of two or
three oranges squeezed into a tumbler.
If she does these things a normal woman may go through the whole nine
months without experiencing one single moment of nausea, as many a
woman has done.
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